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Congressional Democrats want to protect health coverage and protections of the Affordable Care Act. With the Senate in Republican hands, House Democrats will hold hearings and may turn to the courts.

The Trump administration is interpreting the somewhat vague law governing shutdowns broadly so it can ease the pain this shutdown causes. But some critics say they're not adhering to the law.

Writing about topics as diverse as race, sexual assault, Hurricane Harvey, and art history, Lacy M. Johnson's essays are together a philosophy in disguise — equal parts memoir, criticism, and ethics.

As lawmakers returned to the Capitol on Monday morning, they renewed calls for Gov. Ralph Northam to resign.

In Britain, old-fashioned milk delivery, with glass bottles "left on the doorstep," is making a comeback, with customers rejecting plastic containers and demanding the convenience of home delivery

With less than a year before the U.K. leaves the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May takes her cabinet on a retreat, hoping to agree on a approach to negotiating the terms of Brexit.

The board of elections in Georgia's Randolph County, has proposed closing two-thirds of polling places. Critics of the proposal say this is a move to suppress low-income and African-American votes.

Monday is the Defense Secretary's last day on the job. He urged people to "to support and defend the Constitution while protecting our way of life."

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Cormac Farrell, an environmental scientist who works in bushfire management, about what Australia has learned from past seasons, and how it's coping with the current one.

Though the outcome of the Iowa caucuses stretched out all week, Democrats are in New Hampshire for a debate ahead of the state's primary in four days. Seven candidates qualified for Friday's debate.